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File:Blinn2.jpg|Cab of RDC [[VIA6145|VIA No. 6145]] at [[Yarmouth]], having just arrived with [[The Last Train|last passenger train]] on the DAR, January 14, 1990. | File:Blinn2.jpg|Cab of RDC [[VIA6145|VIA No. 6145]] at [[Yarmouth]], having just arrived with [[The Last Train|last passenger train]] on the DAR, January 14, 1990. | ||
File:Blinn3.jpg|Willis Forsythe in cab of RDC [[VIA6145|VIA No. 6145]] at [[Yarmouth]], having arrived with [[The Last Train|the DAR's last passenger train]], just before the RDC returned to [[Halifax]] empty about 2 am, January 14/15, 1990. | File:Blinn3.jpg|Willis Forsythe in cab of RDC [[VIA6145|VIA No. 6145]] at [[Yarmouth]], having arrived with [[The Last Train|the DAR's last passenger train]], just before the RDC returned to [[Halifax]] empty about 2 am, January 14/15, 1990. | ||
| + | Blinn4.jpg|Allison Durky testing wheels of RDC [[VIA6145|VIA No. 6145]] at [[Yarmouth]] before it returned to Halifax empty, ending passenger service on the DAR, January 14/15, 1990. | ||
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Revision as of 18:07, 24 April 2021
VIA Rail Budd Rail Diesel Car RDC-1 No. 6145.
Built 9/1956
Budd Serial number 6503
Acquired from CP in 1982.
This unit, along with VIA Rail No. 6143, made the last trip from Halifax to Yarmouth on January 14, 1990. The return trip to Halifax in the early morning hours of January 15, marked the last trip made by an RDC on the DAR.
Gallery
VIA Rail RDC No. 6143 and VIA Rail RDC No. 6145 about to depart Halifax, the last passenger train on the DAR, Jan. 14, 1990.
Cab of RDC VIA No. 6145 at Yarmouth, having just arrived with last passenger train on the DAR. Engineer is believed to be Willis Forsythe, January 14, 1990.
Cab of RDC VIA No. 6145 at Yarmouth, having just arrived with last passenger train on the DAR, January 14, 1990.
Willis Forsythe in cab of RDC VIA No. 6145 at Yarmouth, having arrived with the DAR's last passenger train, just before the RDC returned to Halifax empty about 2 am, January 14/15, 1990.
Allison Durky testing wheels of RDC VIA No. 6145 at Yarmouth before it returned to Halifax empty, ending passenger service on the DAR, January 14/15, 1990.
